Colour film is always interesting (and because of the limited stocks back then it's mostly, but not entirely, confined to German & US sourcing). Not sure how 5.1 can be realistic for this though.
It might be better if the lazy program producers actually stopped showing incorrect movie stock footage and bothered to find the correct footage of the various events, or machine types being discussed.
Given the specialist nature of the subject and the appeal to those who already are likely to know quite a bit about the subject that is a real annoying frequent issue with their stuff.
Using 'The World at War' footage endlessly (and often completely out of context.....one well known scene of English farmers in 1940 looking up to watch the Battle of Britain taking place overhead was used in a program as if they were being threateneed with staffing of dive-bombing, for instance) is a real cop-out. Similarly using late war footage to illustrate early war events is a regular feature of their shows.
Most damning of all though is the way that - with a few rare exceptions - they rarely add anything new to the sum of what we have already seen and know about WW2.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Colour film is always interesting (and because of the limited stocks back then it's mostly, but not entirely, confined to German & US sourcing).
Not sure how 5.1 can be realistic for this though.
It might be better if the lazy program producers actually stopped showing incorrect movie stock footage and bothered to find the correct footage of the various events, or machine types being discussed.
Given the specialist nature of the subject and the appeal to those who already are likely to know quite a bit about the subject that is a real annoying frequent issue with their stuff.
Using 'The World at War' footage endlessly (and often completely out of context.....one well known scene of English farmers in 1940 looking up to watch the Battle of Britain taking place overhead was used in a program as if they were being threateneed with staffing of dive-bombing, for instance) is a real cop-out.
Similarly using late war footage to illustrate early war events is a regular feature of their shows.
Most damning of all though is the way that - with a few rare exceptions - they rarely add anything new to the sum of what we have already seen and know about WW2.